From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 11:47:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66A137B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:47:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0831443EC5 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBAJkdOg025055; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:39 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBAJkcCe025054; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:38 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:38 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Adrian Penisoara Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <20021210194638.GA24994@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20021210120315.V9278-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: [...] > But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the > Terminal / Keyboard / "Backspace key" from "Contrl-? (127)" to > "Control-H", but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't > need this -- does it mean FreeBSD has broken termcap entries or that > Linux is just stepping on the traditional standards ? It's Linux that's stepping on standards. Their default config is to have erase=DEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=BACKASPCE. I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message